Andrew Mosley

Andrew Mosley serves as the Smithsonian’s director of federal resources within the Office of Planning, Management, and Budget (OPMB) where he is responsible for overseeing the Smithsonian’s federal budget formulation and execution processes. 

Prior to joining the Smithsonian in 2022, Mosley previously served as the managing director for resources and appropriation as well as the budget formulation team lead in the Office of Foreign Assistance. In that capacity, he oversaw the budget processes for the Department of State’s and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s over-$40.0 billion annual foreign assistance-related budget. This included the process to develop and submit the annual foreign assistance request to Congress from the Department of State and USAID. 

Between 2006 and 2015, Mosley served in various roles within the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA) at the Department of State. He was the division chief for policy and program coordination in the Office of Assistance Coordination and was responsible for overseeing the coordination and implementation of foreign assistance activities across the Middle East and North Africa. Before that, Mosley served as the division chief for policy and programming in the Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), providing direction, oversight, and guidance for MEPI programming and its team of project officers. Mosley also served as MEPI’s division chief for strategic planning and resources and was responsible for managing the office’s foreign assistance and administrative budgets, strategic planning efforts, and Congressional and public affairs outreach activities. 

Mosley entered the civil service in 2005 as a Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Commerce. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts in political science and history from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.